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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. The economy is doing well despite Germany’s accommodation of more than 1 million refugees since 2015. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

Data 120
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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

Marketing 134
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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them.

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

And we are going to get that value from the product or service that is delivered at the project’s completion. In the 1980s, project management software packages often were marketed in terms of how well they performed what was called “cost/schedule integration.” We are doing it because of the value we are going to get from it.

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